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... so it is fresh for enjoyment at home. Traditional Chinese tea ceremonies are very different from what know in Canada. It seems a lot of what we replicate is of British tea origin (with a tea bag and tea set). In China, they have tea trays with many tiny cups for filling and different servers for each step in the pouring process. It is about getting the most out of your tea and sharing it with others. Water is constantly being boiled for ...

... 18, but there is no law for it, so people generally do as they please. A local said that his son (just a boy) gets a tiny bit of beer each night before bed. Sofia, a local artist who recently joined our tour, said that some people just give their babies a bottle full of it. I thought this was pretty funny.

On our way to Yixing we stopped in Jiangsu, a "small" village of about 200 000 people! A totally ...

... temple and I took some pictures. After we came down from the temple we went on a raft ride. It was like a very bad Kennywood logjammer. The rafts were too small for the channel, so we would get stuck and we had to paddle on many parts of the ride. I was in one boat with a student and the three other students were in another boat. At one of the widest points on ...

In the late afternoon I took the subway to the train station where I was to meet my travel companion. The subway in Nanjing and Beijing is soooo much nicer than New York. More modern, easier to use, cleaner, safer, and a smoother ride. And on top of that, it only cost about 40 cents to ride it. While I was waiting - I walked around a ...

... that we have a toast with each individual person two or three times each. I felt like I was giving a toast every few minutes. At first they insisted that we drink the hard stuff, and not just sip it for the toast, but to slug down the whole glass. I quickly changed to drinking the weaker beer, but one of my colleagues did not. After a few hours of drinking and eating it was time to go home.